From Texas to New England, millions of Americans are facing dangerously hot temperatures that have led the National Weather Service to issue heat advisories and extreme heat warnings this week.

The National Weather Service is using new heat alert terminology beginning this summer to improve public awareness and understanding of what the weather service says is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the country,

North Jersey is facing dangerously high temperatures on Friday, July 25, with heat index values expected to climb as high as 108 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Most of New Jersey is under an Extreme Heat Warning or Heat Advisory with "feels-like" temperatures expected to top